Karnataka - Gulbarga   

New law demanded on admission to professional courses

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Experts favour a uniform legilsation throughout the country

CLEARING CONFUSION: Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarti Parishad State unit vice-president M. Nagaraj making a presentation on the confusion prevailing in the admission to professional colleges at a round table conference in Gulbarga on Sunday.

GULBARGA: The academics and representatives of teachers and students' organisations on Monday urged the Union and State governments to enact a law to regulate admission to professional colleges plugging all loopholes in the present admission policies in view of the Supreme Court directions on the admission and fee structure of professional courses and end the uncertainty over admissions.

They were participating in a round table conference organised at the Poojya Doddappa Appa College of Engineering by the Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarti Parishad (ABVP).

Senior professors of law in the district and representatives of Gulbarga University Private College Teachers' Association said the Karnataka Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Determination of Fee) Bill 2006 passed in both Houses of the Legislative Assembly had failed to address controversies surrounding the admission policy and added more confusion rather than finding a solution to problems faced by students.

After discussion lasting for three hours, the round table conference passed a resolution urging the Centre to step in and bring in a comprehensive Central law to bring in uniform admission policy to professional colleges and adopt a mechanism to fix a uniform and affordable fee structure.

ABVP State vice-president Nagaraj, who made a presentation on admissions to professional colleges after the 93rd amendment to the Constitution ensuring reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes in private unaided professional colleges and the law passed in the Legislative Assembly on the admission and fee structure in professional colleges, said the legislations fell short of solving the problems of students and to protect the interests of deserving and merited students.

Mr. Nagaraj and other speakers at the conference, including the retired principal of the S.S.L. Law College Malipatil, said the law passed in the Legislative Assembly should have included the clause of conducting a common entrance examination for private and government professional colleges.

Allowing private unaided professional college managements to conduct entrance test of their own would not serve the purpose of protecting the interests of students.

General merit

Another resolution passed at the meeting wanted the Government to reserve all 35 per cent of seats available in private unaided professional colleges after reserving 50 per cent of the seats for SC, ST and OBC students and 15 per cent of the seats to the Non-Resident Indians, to the general merit students hailing from Karnataka only.

NRI seats

Mr. Nagaraj said there were several instances of NRI seats not being filled by private unaided professional colleges in the State and in the event of the required number of NRI seats are not filled up by the colleges, how the Government would ensure payment of fees to students belonging to the SC, ST and OBCs who would be admitted in these colleges as per the quota.

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